Hello guys,
I bought an xda atom and decided to sell it becaues the screen is too small to view file such as excel or words.
I need to know if there is any way that I can permanently delete the files that I deleted so that the person who bought my atom cannot recovery the deleted files.
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Hard Reset it...
Hi rain, you mean just resetting by pushing something inside the small one next to the USB slot on the left, does it all?
That easy?
No, that's a soft reset...
Hard reset means that everything is erased from your PocketPC, and you will only have the out of the box settings. Check if you have a small application called "Clear Storage" in settings panel control-> it will do the job for you. If not ask arround or check the manual on how to perform hard reset on HTC Atom.
Cheers,
Raul
Hi Rain, I could not locate any Clear Storage under settings. I search inside the Personal, System and Connections tabs, but none has what you said.
Even if we hard-reset, would any undeleter or recovery software run from computer able to trace the file and recover it?
I don't think that there exists such software... , for pocketpc side i mean.
A hard reset is like a format to your desktop's harddrive , everything is erased and only what is in the extended rom is installed on your device.(extended rom is a hidden to user folder that contains the cab files with OEMs customisation files)
So you will loose all your apps , contacts, notes, appointments...everything that was inputed but you...that is why there are back-up utilities available
Cheers,
Raul
I checked the user handbook. The way to hard reset is to press the on/off button while pressing the soft reset button at the same time.
Thanks for your reply, rain.
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Hi Everyone,
following a hard reset of my XDA2 i have noticed that i have four files in word that i cannot move or delete,
tasksprotestkey
contactprotect key
connection protect key
appointments protectkey
anyone had this problem before and solved it?
thanks
Martin
Those files are located in the extra storage of 14 MB on your device. The exact location is:
\\Storage\PerSaveBackup
Most likely is your Word pointed to this location.
Those files are used by Permanent save in Settings -> System
Conclusion: This is behaviour is normal. Nothing is wrong with your XDAII. Just point you Word to another location to look for files. Normally this should be My Documents
Mark
Okay, here is the story... Sometimes I just want to soft reset my Tornado to close those "unclosable" apps like MSN Messenger. So I wrote this little program to help me. Now I don't have to turn off the phone and turn it on again just in order to do a soft reset.
I'd like to share it. Haven't been tested on Tornados other than mine. Use it at your own risk.
Just extract the exe from zip, copy it to your Tornado, run from File Manager... you can also create a shortcut for it. :roll:
B.T.W, It DOES NOT work on Windows Mobile 2003 platform. So don't bother to try.
It's updated. No more stupid ARE YOU SURE question.
Few question asked (ok ? Yes ? are you sure ? )
But work ok for me
Maybe turned OFF Button and turned ON Button will be shorter don't you think ?
Thanks anyhow
edit : on the second RUN less question Asked. Only one actually "Would you like to Soft reset"
I guess other question was the Win Mobile 5 things when you first run a new APPZ 8)
Bonjour. It's updated.
I just made it for fun.
Planning to add scheduled reboot function. So it can reboot in midnight, and you get fresh memory for a new day.
Any other ideas are welcome!
If you are havign trouble making registry settings place documents and mail on the storage card because boot-up doesn't find the card fast enough, then maybe soft reset will help.
I will try. Thanks.
Well, I believe CeleTask free memory function is more than sufficient
You didn't understand me, but I think I was wrong anyway.
There are times when you try to place certain system folders on Storage. But when phone boots, it tries to write that data before it recognises the storage card, so it creates the folder in system memory again (I think in Application Data instead of original location).
My thought was that if you could make a registry change immediately effective without theneed for a bood sequence, you could have your data on the storage card.
However, recent reading tells me that for registry settings to take effect, the system needs to be powered down. So no good.
karhoe said:
Well, I believe CeleTask free memory function is more than sufficient
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+1 for CeleTask
And it also has the great Tools/Reboot shortcut
Hey guys, How to do your hard reset TC, so i can get back to how i got it when i bought it.. Thank you.
Have you lost the owners manual? It should tell you in that
More helpful...
This is how I hard reset my xda orbit 2 (polaris):
1) Get your stylus and place it in the hole next to the USB port, BUT DONT PUSH! Just get it ready but dont actually push the button inside the hole.
2)Place your fingers on the Windows and OK buttons
3)Press and hold the buttons, dont let go.
4)Stright away push the stylus into the hole and press the button inside. You can let go of the stylus once the button inside has been pushed
5)Keep holding onto the Windows and OK buttons
6)After 5 seconds let go of the Windows and OK buttons
7)If asked to press SEND, just press the green pickup call button.
Thats all!
Hi. First of all, sorry for my english. Second - is this necessary to pull out the SIM card and the memory card, when doing a hard reset ? And how to make (or with which software) a backup of my data before reseting - sms,mms, some pictures, docs ?
10x in advance
Great... now the included CDs are lost too... What are you people doing? Seriously!
User manual pages 230-231 for the Hard Reset
For backup, pages 144-146, and software included on the CD...
It's in the manual (you know... little black book which has "manual" printed on it) for Christ's sake...
10x, but...in the user manuals is nothing written about SIM card. The only action required for a memory card is to be pulled out, if is encrypted. What about if is not encrypted ? There`s not a word...
Included CD do not start, because of "...requires Adobe Flash Player version 8.0 or latter...", although I have version 9.0...till now - I fixed it just now . And installed Sprite Backup. So...the only question is about the SIM card ? Sorry for a stupid question, if the answer is simple, but no one said nothing about SIM card. It`s hard to say goodbay for 220 phone numbers....
I did a hard reset with my XDA ORBIT 2 about 30 minutes ago.. I left the SIM card and memory card in. No problems here, all works fine.
Concerning encryption on the memory card, you either need to (before you hard reset) backup all the files from your memory card to something else (e.g. a computer) or turn off encryption.
If you turn on encryption then the memory card will only be readable on the PDA you turned the encryption on to. If you hard reset that PDA then your PDA 'forgets' that memory card's encryption technique and the files will appear corrupt.
So basically as long as you use your memory card on the pda you turned encryption on ONLY and you don't hard reset the PDA, then its fine.
If you need to change the PDA or hard reset it, you will need to backup/turn off encryption on your memory card before doing so.
Don't worry about the SIM card's data... but if you want to be 100% sure, take it out before the HR...
gnick666 said:
Great... now the included CDs are lost too... What are you people doing? Seriously!
User manual pages 230-231 for the Hard Reset
For backup, pages 144-146, and software included on the CD...
It's in the manual (you know... little black book which has "manual" printed on it) for Christ's sake...
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BTW just for the record, XDA ORBIT 2's don't come with a hardcopy manual; instead it is saved on the CD that comes with it.
If you lose the CD, it can be accquired from the O2 website -
http://www.my-xda.com/pdf/user_manual/Full_user_Manual_Xda_Orbit_2.pdf
gnick666 said:
Don't worry about the SIM card's data... but if you want to be 100% sure, take it out before the HR...
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If you try to backup all your contacts to the SIM before the hard reset, I would take extra precaution; some SIM cards vary in size and if you try copying your contacts to it sometimes they do not all get saved. This happened to me and I only got about 11 contacts on my SIM. I recommed the program PIM Backup be used before the hard reset. If anyone likes I can provide a link to download it.
prank1 said:
BTW just for the record, XDA ORBIT 2's don't come with a hardcopy manual...
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OP said TC, not Oribt 2... and yes, I know about it.
prank1 said:
If you try to backup all your contacts to the SIM before the hard reset, ...
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This is exactly the reason why I don't bother saving contacts to the SIM. All my contacts are synced whith several PCs.
Everything is fine, guys. Now must do some tweaks and registry optimization.
10x a lot for your help.
np.. but on a final note could I recommend SKtools - it has a section on optimising ur device.
also if you turn off the large start menu bar you will find the device is a lot faster - credit goes to te person that posted that
Hey
I've got this ASUS smartphone I'm giving away (its got a cracked screen) - and because its ASUS I cant flash it.
Is there a way to wipe the Messages, Contacts and email settings through activesync, I can see program files windows dirs etc...?
Thanksn
you can hard reset it. just search for the combination of how to hard reset your asus and you'll be ok.
The only way for this phone is through the phone interface of which I cannot access (http://www.hardreset.eu/asus_p750_hard_reset_soft_reset_en.html)
Doesn't make sense. there's always a way to hard reset using the Hardware buttons only since a Hardreset is supposed to solve the issue of having problems using your touchscreen or the Interface in general. find it .. and you're ok
Are you saying theres nothing I can do with remote filesystem access through activesync.
if you go to active sync and uncheck the sync options for contacts, callender and emails, doesnt this wipe them off the device?
The other option in to rename the pim file on the device to something else, soft reset, then you can delete the pim file. worked for me when i lent out my prophet to a mate for a while (although i didnt delete the file, just hid it out of prying eyes
yup, these are good options as well.
when you sync with nothing it erases everything. messages and call history won't be wiped.. for messages you can rename cemail.vol and pim.vol and then delete them.
tho if your screen is cracked.. i see no reason why not to save yourself the trouble and just hard reset
yh thats true
there should be a way to hard reset using clear storage in software, unless the screen is dead dead and cant be used... (or is that just wm6? its been a while since i used wm5 lol)
you can hard reset using software in WM5 to my knowledge.. but he can't since his screen can't be used (as far as i understand).
if he can still sync, might be able to use my mobiler to access the functions on the device whilst synced via the computer, goto clear stoarge and activate it... should work... long winded yes lol, but short of knowing how to hardware reset i dont know.
If I perform a hard reset, what do I loose? what do I keeep? IE I am aware I will loose all the data i hav DLed on it but do I have to reprogram the phone and all?
Here's your answer, copied directly from the TP2 user's manual:
Performing a hard reset
If a normal reset does not solve a system problem, you can perform a hard (full) reset. After a hard reset, the device is restored to its default settings—the way it was when you first purchased it and turned it on. You
will lose any programs you installed, data you entered, and settings you customized on your device, and only Windows Mobile® software and other pre-installed programs will remain.
Warning! Your device will be set back to factory default settings. Make sure that any additional installed programs and/or user data have been backed up before you perform a hard reset.
Important If Encrypt files when placed on a storage card is enabled, backup all files from the storage card before using Clear Storage, hard reset, or updating the operating system. Otherwise you will no longer be able to
access the encrypted files on the storage card. Use ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center to transfer files between your storage card and computer. After the procedure, copy your files back to the storage card.
Thank you for the reply. I have read that (in fact it was the first thing I read, and I as said I understand I will loose my files and what not) and it doesn't answer my question about programing on the verizon network. The reason why I asked is because the programing was a difficult process for several reasons that I wont get into.
Sorry, I wasn't (and still am not) clear about what you mean by "reprogramming". The hard reset leaves you with a phone that is the same as it was when you first opened the box EXCEPT that you do not need to initiate phone service. There are no contacts, no emails, no preference settings, but you can immediately make and receive phone calls. There are some free cabs that you can use to backup much of your data before doing the hard reset. This will reduce some of the pain of losing so much of what you put into the phone before doing the hard reset.
Thanks that does answer my question. When you get a phone you have to go through verizon programming dial *228 before using it. If you dont think i need to do this, then i should be al set
On a hard reset, you will need to dial *228 to activate the phone.